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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi there. Long time reader. First time poster.

We are looking at moving to Brightwood. (West of Georgia Ave, north of Missouri, south of new Walter Reed)

House we are looking at is IB is Brightwood (where two blocks north is Takoma).

I’ve read Ft Stevens and Takoma are popular playgrounds. It’s be fun to have the kids play with neighborhood kids.

Anyone in this area of Brightwood send their kids to Brightwood ES? Lottery somewhere else?

We’ve driven around the area a lot and see a lot of kids.

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We live in Brightwood but lotteried WOTP for K. FWIW, we were offered slots at 4 schools WOTP through the lottery. we did not look into the IB schools because we had heard some not-so-great things about the infrastructure (not the quality of the teaching) so defer to the other posters on those specifics. But agree with other posters who say try the lottery to give yourself options![/quote]

OP again.
How is the commute? Not being part of the neighborhood, how does that impact friends playing after school, etc? I love the idea of WOTP but the before care, after care drops, not being part of the neighborhood, etc.. [/quote]

The early pickup time after school has always been an issue for us (private and public) because we are a household where both parents work. Even if our children went to a school close by, we would still need to manage the fact that their days end before our work days do. So needing to figure out aftercare options has always been part of our lives  :roll:  In terms of commute, we cut through the park using military road and Ridge Road in the morning and we are there in about 20m. The traffic tends to flow smoothly if you are out of the house before 8am. Since we have another kid in a private middle school near the public as well, we need to do the commute no matter what and it doesn't add time.

Given our experience with an older kid in private, we are used to the notion of having friends be spread out throughout neighborhoods (and in VA and MD) and needing to make plans to drive for playdates so I have never really held onto the 'neighborhood' feel as being a draw for the choice of school. We are only about 2 months into our experience with our WOTP public, but in terms of playdates and parties, I do not feel any disadvantage being OOB. People are not as phobic of making an effort to go outside of their neighborhood for playdates as might be imagined reading some of these threads. But that is just our own experience :)[/quote]

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